Ten Facts About ACM Nominee Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is nominated for three Academy of Country Music Awards this year, including Entertainer of the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year. Check out Ten Things you may not know about Taylor!
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Taylor Swift - neat freak

Taylor is a little bit OCD-she admits to being really organized and a total neat freak. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

National Anthem

When she was only 11 she performed the national anthem at a Philadelphia 76ers game. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images for DCP)

Opera Singing Grandmother

Taylor Swift’s grandmother was a professional opera singer, and inspired Taylor to become a singer. (Photo credit GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)

Taylor Swift - novelist

When she was 12 she spent an entire summer penning a 350-page novel-that has yet to be published. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

"The Outsider(r)"

She wrote her first song “The Outside” at age 12 because she felt like an outsider at school. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

"Online"

She made a cameo in Brad Paisley’s 2007 music video for “Online.” (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

She has written over 250 songs since age 12. (Photo by Sandra Mu/Getty Images)

High Heels

Taylor is “obsessed” with high heels, but rarely wears them out of fear she’ll fall. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

CSI and SVU 'expert'

Taylor’s favorite TV shows are the crime-dramas “Law and Order: SVU” and “CSI.” The singer considers herself an “expert” on the shows, and would want to be a forensic detective if she weren’t in the music industry. She even got to appear in an episode of CSI! Her favorite part? When she got to die! (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images)